CME: Parkinson's disease: Optimizing pharmacotherapeutic management strategies and addressing clinical challenges
ACCREDITATION EXPIRED: July 16, 2021
Activity Description / Statement of Need:
In this online CME self-learning program:
Parkinson's disease (PD), a central nervous system disease of the autonomic and basal ganglia, neocortex, and spinal cord, is thought to affect about one million people in the United States. Its etiology is thought to include a confluence of factors including age, genetic predisposition, comorbid disease states (e.g., Gaucher’s disease), and environmental factor dynamics. Present in 1% of people over age 65 and 2.5% of those older than 80, its symptoms are the direct result of dopaminergic neuronal degradation along the nigrostriatal tract and include bradykinesia, resting tremor, muscle rigidity, and gait disturbance.
Target Audience:
The following healthcare professionals: neurologists and primary care physicians; physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, and pharmacists who practice in neurology; and any other healthcare professionals with an interest in or who clinically encounter patients with PD.
This program is supported by an educational grant from Acorda and UCB.
This activity is free of charge.
Release Date: July 16, 2019 -- Expiration Date: July 16, 2021
Faculty: Jessica Lehosit, DO
Agenda
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Faculty introduction, disclosures |
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Introduction content: cursory refresher and review of PD
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Treatment of PD
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Summary, conclusions, and best practice recap |
Learning Objectives
By the end of the session the participant will be able to:
- Describe the pathophysiology and disease progression of PD and their impact on patient quality-of-life
- Describe the common clinical presentation(s) of PD
- Apply recent biomedical literature to the management of PD the primary disease, levodopa-related fluctuations in motor function and dyskinesia, and other disease complications and effects impacting quality-of-life
- Identify the advances in the biomedical literature concerning PD and emerging treatment options
- List challenges and barriers to care associated with treating patients with PD
Accreditation
ACCME Activity #201336470
ACCREDITATION FOR THIS COURSE HAS EXPIRED. YOU MAY VIEW THE PROGRAM, BUT CME / CE IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE AND NO CERTIFICATE WILL BE ISSUED.
Faculty Disclosure and Resolution of COI
As a provider of continuing medical education, it is the policy of ScientiaCME to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all of its educational activities. In accordance with this policy, faculty and educational planners must disclose any significant relationships with commercial interests whose products or devices may be mentioned in faculty presentations, and any relationships with the commercial supporter of the activity. The intent of this disclosure is to provide the intended audience with information on which they can make their own judgments. Additionally, in the event a conflict of interest (COI) does exist, it is the policy of ScientiaCME to ensure that the COI is resolved in order to ensure the integrity of the CME activity. For this CME activity, any COI has been resolved thru content review ScientiaCME.
Faculty Disclosures:
Dr. Jessica Lehosit, DO, Assistant Professor of Neurology, McGuire VAMC/VCU medical center, has no relevant conflicts of interest to disclose.
Disclosures of Educational Planners: Charles Turck, PharmD has no relevant conflicts of interest to disclose.
Commercial Support Disclosure: This program is supported by an educational grant from Acorda and UCB
Instructions
- Read the learning objectives above
- Take the Pre-Test (optional). Completion of the pre-test will help us evaluate the knowledge gained by participating in this CME activity.
- View the online activity. You may view this is in more than one session, and may pause or repeat any portion of the presentation if you need to.
- Minimum participation threshold: Take the post-test. A score of 70% or higher is required to pass and proceed to the activity evaluation.
- Complete the activity evaluation and CME registration. A CE certificate will be emailed to you immediately.
System Requirements
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Please take a few minutes to participate in the optional pre-test. It will help us measure the knowledge gained by participating in this activity.
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